Veteran journalist David McKittrick was interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s ‘The Westminster Hour’ (26th July) and related a conversation with a Tory MP who thought the British government had won the hunger strike, though McKittrick...
Read MoreA vigil and wreath laying ceremony is to take place in West Belfast on Sunday, 2nd August, at 12 noon to mark the 28th anniversary of the death on hunger strike of Volunteer Kieran Doherty TD. Speaking in advance of the vigil...
Read MoreFor the first time the National Hunger Strike march will be taking place in County Tyrone, remembering all the hunger strikers and in particular Tyrone’s Martin Hurson who was the sixth prisoner to die, on the 13th July, 1981....
Read MoreOn this day, Monday 13th July 1981, 24-year-old Martin Hurson from County Tyrone died after forty six days on hunger strike. Martin had joined the hunger striker in late May, replacing Brendan McLoughlin who had been forced to...
Read MoreA series of anniversary vigils will take place across Belfast on Wednesday, 8th July, to mark the 28th anniversary of the death on hunger strike of IRA Volunteer Joe McDonnell. Joe, a 30 year old married man with two children...
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The Bobby Sands Trust was established to publish, promote and keep in print the extraordinary writings of Bobby Sands, who from prison isolation became an international figure in 1981, and who to this day continues to inspire Irish republicans in their pursuit of freedom from British rule.